On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 05:28, Bill wrote: > Purchased Nov APC this morning. > > Tried clean install of Mandrake 9.0 (overwrote existing functioning > Mandrake 8.2), but no luck with install. > > Got the following errors during install:- > > error installing filesystem - 2.1.13-8mdk.noarch > ditto Xfree86-4.2.1-2mdk.i586 > ditto ppp-2.4.1-6mdki586 > error mkintrd failed > error occurred - mkbootdisk failed
hrmmm. that first one is more than a little alarming. It's a package that makes all the standard directories you need. First of all, unless you go and format your /usr, etc partitions, I'd say doing "upgrade" or "upgrade all packages" is the install method you should be using. Is the machine booting? I would be suspicious of those disks. If your machine is still booting, start it up, put the disk in the drive and run dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/null and see if you get errors. ... if you don't... then I guess it's possible you've got a broken rpm database or something. If that's the case then try (as root) rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* rpm --rebuilddb and your machine will think for a while and eventually rebuild your rpm database. Then an upgrade install might be possible. HTH James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
